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The goddess and the nation : mapping Mother India by Ramaswamy, Sumathi is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, “Mother India,” the Indian nation imagined as mother/goddess, embodiment of national territory, and unifying symbol for the country’s diverse communities. Soon after Mother India’s emergence in the late nineteenth century, artists, both famous and amateur, began to picture her in various media, incorporating the map of India into her visual persona. The images they pr
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ramaswamy, Sumathi
- Publisher
- Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822345923
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Anthropology, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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